"What? Peter's Animagus is a rat?" Pomona asked incredulously. "What use is a rat?"
"He can keep watch," Sirius said dryly, rubbing his noticeably lengthened nose.
She looked at James again.
"How about we give each other nicknames?" James said loudly. "For example, my Animagus is a stag..."
"Could you say that any louder? Better let the whole world know you're illegal Animagi."
"At least we succeeded. What about you?" James looked at Pomona. "When will your Animagus succeed?"
"With James and me around, you won't need to come anymore," Sirius said bluntly.
She did not think that was "kindness." Perhaps Sirius thought that even if Peter's Animagus was a rat, he was still more useful than a girl.
It infuriated her.
"Where are you going?" Sirius asked.
"None of your business!" she said without looking back, leaving the lakeside.
A swan circled gracefully above the lake.
Facing the water like a mirror, it gazed at its own reflection.
Article Seventy-Nine of the Gryffindor Code: Live or die, but never merely survive.
It was therefore hard to imagine Peter Pettigrew living in Ron's home as a rat for so many years. Even harder to understand was that he still remembered how to transform back into a human.
The swan flew through the air a little longer, then headed south.
The New Heloise was written by Rousseau, and the setting had also moved from Brittany to a small town in the Alps. Rousseau's ancestors had originally been French, but later fled to Geneva.
The heroine was not named Heloise either, but was an aristocratic young lady called Julie. She fell in love with her tutor, but her father strongly opposed it because he had already promised her to the Russian nobleman Wolmar.
Julie did not become the head of a convent